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I follow Living Greyhawk's in allowing players to spend 28 points instead of rolling 4d6 and I received no serious complaints. I like to work with less than perfect characters, as they usually have more personality than the ones with too good scores.

I've run games in settings with or without firearms. They are a nice addition as they definitely give a different edge to the game. They are not unbalancing, although I had to adapt the DMG weapons to make them more lethal. During game play they are used to discharge a shot, but players rarely...

I probably had something like dozens at one time. However, most of them were never played, some of them were poor purchases and I ended hating them after reading. A couple years ago I started giving away things I wouldn't play anymore. Right now I have only three, although one is at risk, as I...

If you're looking for a replacement of the alignment system, I would suggest you to take a look in the alliance system of Dragon Lords of Melniboné. There is only one axis, Chaos-Law, and characters receive starting numbers on Chaos, Law, and Balance based in their class and race/culture. From...

I have average expectations and bad experience. I used to run most of the games with good to excellent responses. However, about two years ago I became so tired to be the DM that I decided to take a break for a while. Since then, I was in two long (D&D and Wheel of Time) and two short (something...

I follow Zappo in using them only as plot devices: a senile patron here or a very sick wizard that refuses to get help from a cleric. As a matter of fact, I don't recall ever using it with the PCs.

I hardly write anything as preparation to a game. Usually, I write down spellcaster's spells, as it might be hard to track it without taking notes, and I do some very schematic maps. That's it. This doesn't means that I don't spend time thinking about the game. I do. It is one of my main...

Call of Cthulhu is the best rpg I ever played. I think that the design is short of genial in many aspects. I've never even read CoC d20 as I thought it was an unnecessary version. I would say that CoC, along with D&D, Traveller, and GURPS, is one of my default games, i.e., games in which I first...

The best way to do it is to create some plot hooks in advance and to improvise a few new ones (or adjust some previous planned) as the players take unforeseen directions. It requires a good creative mind, which most D&D DM have anyway, and some organization skills as you should note down every...

I don't like psionics in my D&D game and I really dislike the mechanics in AD&D (1st and 2nd edition) as well as the original 3rd edition rules. That said, I thought that the Force System in Star Wars was pretty cool.

Get Pendragon RPG, probably the best game ever done in the subject. Even if you ditch the rules, there is a lot you can take for your D&D game.

As I dislike high level games I usually decrease the rate of character advance in such way that my campaigns can end in a satisfactory way. This is an easy fix.

I think that the D&D Rules Cyclopedia is the best presentation of the D&D rules ever. I don't see why WotC could not combine all core books in a single volume. They already done it in The Wheel of Time RPG, Call of Cthulhu d20 RPG, and Star Wars d20 RPG, so they know how to do it. Quite frankly...

If you follow WotC/TSR adventures style, then your character will shortly have too much money to worry about the cost of an inn. In my adventures, there isn't much money around. Most inns are just a hall with a fire for a few coppers. Real bedrooms go for a few silver coins. There isn't much...

You're probably referring to Caçadores, which is the Portuguese word for Hunters. I don't know anything about the military unit, but the title appears to be appropriated to the description you gave.

Mine is a gritty dark fantasy game with lots of fencing and blackpowder weapons. I also rule out most of the humanoids, as the game is focused in humans.

You're underestimating by far the volume of sales in the 80s. Usually, companies do not post the number of units sold as it is considered a business secret. However, I suggest you to give a look in Marc Miller's series of reprints of Traveller. He states sales in the order of a few hundreds of...

By major I believe you mean systems used in several games that were best sellers along time but not necessarily today. As such, I think it would go something like: d20 (D&D) Storyteller (Vampire, Werewolf, etc.) Palladium (Rifts, Palladium Fantasy RPG) BRP (Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer...

I started playing with the old basic box but I quickly moved to AD&D. We messed with rounds segments. In the way we interpreted, spells would take several rounds, not segments, to be casted. As such, a magic-user would have to concentrate for three rounds before he could cast a fireball. It is...

Your pool is quite confusing as it refers to two questions at once. Concerning settings. I don't run adventures in other settings than my own. Still, from time to time, I like to read other settings to see what's going on. In general, I'm more found of independent settings. It is disgusting how...